Egerton MS 1995

MISCELLANEOUS historical and other pieces in prose and verse, viz.:-

1. "The vii sages of Rome;" in verse. See the Catalogue of Romances. f. 3.

2. Lines on the words, "Memento homo quod cinis es et in cinerem reuerteris," beginning, "Wheune lyfe ys moste louyde and dethe ys moste hatyde;" a version of the well-known "Erthe upon Erthe," f. 55.

3. "The properteys that longy the to a yonge gentylleman," "the Condyseyons of a grehounde," "termys of venery, etc.," and "termys of keruynge of ffoulys ande of ffyschysse, etc.," f. 55 b.

4. "The boke of curtesy," beginning, "Litylle chyldrynne here may y^e lere," f. 58 b. Cf. Harl. MS. 541, f. 210. Printed by the Early English Text Society, ed. Furnivall, 1868.

5. Prognostications from the weather, etc., in Latin, f. 60.

6. "Namys of the byscheppe richys of alle Yngelonde.". . . . . .Deo gracias q[uoth] Hylle," f. 62 b.

7. "The termys of venery and the crafte whythe the iiii. bestys of venery," followed by "the namys of hawkys and to what maner of personys that they longe vnto," f. 63.

8. "A nobylle tretys of medysyns for mannys body," entitled in other copies the "Gouernayl of helthe;" followed by definitions of diseases and a few prescrptions, f. 65. Cf. Add. MS. 29,301, f. 89 b, and Sloane MS. 989, f. 2, the latter of which is said to be compiled by "a worthi clerke called Johan de Burdeux." A Latin version is in Sloane MS. 1,986, f. 91.

9. "Sapiencia phisicorum:" verses on the means of preserving health attributed to John Lydgate, beginning, "Fyrste for helthe of boody couyr for colde thyne hedde," f. 77 b. Printed by the Percy Society, ed. Halliwell, 1840.

10. Directions "for bloode latynge," in verse, beginning, "The maysters that vsyn bloode latynge," f. 79.

11. "The assyse of brede and of alle" [ale], etc., alleged to be a statute of 51 Hen. III. [1266-7], f. 80 b. See "Statutes of the Realm," ed. 1810, vol. i. p. 199.

12. "The namys of Chyrchys that ben why the yn the Cytte of London," including monasteries, hospitals, etc., of some of which a description is given, f. 82.

13. "Þe sege of Rone" [Rouen], by Henry V. in 1418; in verse. Tho author's name is given in the last couplet but four, "With owtyn fabylle or fage Thys procesce made John Page." f. 87. Printed, with the two following articles, by the Camden Society, ed. J. Gairdner, 1876, and imperfectly in the "Archæologia," voll. xxi. xxii.

14. "Cronycles [by John Lydgate] of alle Kyngys of Englonde aftyr the Conqueste [to Henry VI.] as of hyr namys ande where that they bene ibyryede;" in verse. Printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1530, and by the Camden Society as above. f. 110.

15. A chronicle of London, beginnidg in 1189, and ending imperfectly in 1469; compiled as far as 145, by William Gregory, mayor in that year [see f. 195], and continued by a later author. See the introduction to the edition printed by the Camden Society as above. ff. 113-222. On the fly-leaves at the beginning of the volume are a few medical recipes. Paper; xvth cent. From the library of Lord Charlemont. Quarto.